Happy Tamil holidays in January

After a long, 18 -day Lent during the month of December to end with the popular and breathtaking festival of "timidi" (Thimithi), the fire on fire, the Tamil community begins three other celebrations in this rainy month in January2022.These are the feast of "Pongol" on 14, the "Thiruvalluvar Thinai" (the day of Tirouvallouvar) on the 18th and finally on the 18th with the great religious and spiritual holiday of "Thai-Poûsam Kâvadi".

The Pongal (also called Pongol) is also known as "Tamizhar Thirunal".The party generally takes place on the 14th of the Tamil calendar (Pondjangam).A Tamil proverb called "Thai Piranthal Vazhi Pirakkum", the birth of the month of Thai (mid-January in mid-February) paves the road to new opportunities.Pongal is the feast of the harvest in the Tamil Nadu, in the south of India, where the majority of the Tamil Indian committed committed to come to Reunion on the fields of sugar cane.

Pongal, the most popular of the Dravidian rites, is a "bubbling", a symbol of life and fertility, a thank you to this divine energy in which the ancestors of the Tamils have merge, for millennia.This celebration is celebrated in honor of the Sun (Suryen).It marks the passage of the sun in the northern hemisphere to the winter solstice.The party lasts four days.

During the first day, "Bhogi", old fabrics and clothes are thrown and burned, marking the beginning of a new life.On the second day, "Perum", the day of Pongal, we boil rice with fresh milk and molasses or brown sugar, early in the morning, letting the mixture overflow, which explains the name of the.People shout "Pongalo, Pongal" and prepare "Pal-Sadam" (desserts) to share.They visit the family and exchange wishes.

The third day, "Mattu Pongal" is intended to give thanks to cows and buffaloes, because legend says that livestock agreed to help man plow the fields, on the sole condition of being celebrated and honored onceper year.Proof of devotion is requested, where shiva devotees are asked to master his wild, naked hand and their risk, the vehicle of the god Shiva being the bull (Nandi), a practice called "jallikattu".

The last day of Pongal is called "Kanum Pongal", "Kanum" meaning to see, young people met on the banks of the rivers to seek a future spouse, a practice which fell into disuse with the change of manners.During this period, people consume sugar cane and decorate their house "kolam" (drawings).In temples (Kovils), bells, drums, clarinets and Conques shells announce the joyful occasion of Pongal.

Pongal keeps the link with the ecological nature around us and to avoid believing that man is the center of the universe.The Hindu Tamils thank the divine present in the sun and the rain for the good harvest of the year.Harvesting is the result of previous action;The granting of seeds to harvest good fruits.This celebration is also spiritual by the recognition of the divine presence in all, especially in the light, the heat and the water: the three fundamental elements of life.

The other event this month for Tamils is the celebration of "Thiruvalluvar Thinai", the day of Thirouvallouvar.Thiruvalluvar, a great Tamil poet and philosopher, is known for the "Thirukkural", a precious contribution to ancient Tamil literature.It is known as the Bible of Tamils.Through a set of 1,330 maxims, he delivers his vision of the art of living from the Tamils at the beginning of our era, based on three major objectives of life: wisdom, fortune and love.

The work recognized for its universal scope has been translated into almost all languages.It is a collection of philosophical reflections of 133 chapters comprising 10 verses (Kural) and organized in three main parts: Arattuppal (virtue), Porutpal (Fortune) and Kamattapal (Love).He delivers advice for a harmonious and healthy life.

He offers "yamas" (restrictions) and "niyamas" (practices).The Yamas are: avoids all violence, even by thought;Do not steal, do not covet;control your desires;renounce lust and greed;Restreins arrogance and anger;Do not deliver to lies, false promises, and the breach of confidence;Refrain from injustice and drunkenness and finally abandoned on the field any immoral tendency and poor frequentation.

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Niyamas are the following practices: cultivates purity by thought, speech and action;love thy neighbor ;seeks tranquility and satisfaction;cultivates piety through daily devotion and meditation;Be indulgent and constant in adversity;gives the tithe, be generous and disinterested;Read and reread the Holy Scriptures and finally devote yourself from time to time to penance, austerity and sacrifice.This Bible of Tamils is called a "golden apple in a silver net".

The last Tamil celebration for this month is the "Thaï-Paûsam" Kâvadi which is celebrated from January 9 to 18.This colorful religious holiday consists in purifying, fervents are piercing different parts of the body using sacred needles.This celebration is dedicated to Mourouga Chief of the Celestial Armies, Divinity of Youth and War.Son of Shiva and Parvati and brother of Ganesh, Mourouga received his "Shakti Vel", the sacred spear of his mother to destroy the Surapadman demon.It is mounted on a peacock (the Vahana | - its vehicle), destructive of snakes (body attachments) and brandishes its vel, the lance whose three parts (rod, wide part of the iron and point) are the power, theintelligence and victory respectively.

We venerate Mourouga brilliantly on the occasion of Kâvadi because he is the divine child, love, compassion and wisdom.Thanks to his VEL and his mind, the Tamils say that he provides strength, livelihoods, protection and helps man reach success by erasing his arrogant nature.Lord Mourouga symbolizes the eternally revived and juvenile aspiration of the transmigrant and embodied self (jivâtma) to unite indissolubly with the supreme self (paramâtma).

Mourouga evokes the burden of our faults, their redemption, the victory of of course evil, knowledge about ignorance and light on darkness.Silver needles, planted in tongue and mouth, materialize the vow of silence and are supposed to promote the circulation of solar energy.

We are amazed by the beauty of pink fabrics, flowery tanks, but also the fervor of penitents which is imbued with emotion, by the pains offered, the shared human values and the sacred are respected because it is necessary to understand the quintessence of thisculture, tolerance message.

Happy Tamil Holidays in January!

Finally, we can cite Thiruvalluvar:

1.Verse 242: "Walk in the right track and practices benevolence whatever the point of view of which you consider it, it is your only salvation.»»»»

2.Verse 267: "The gold, the more he is heated, the more it shines, similarly, the rigors of austerities make the soul of the penitents shine.»»

Gady V.Monesawmy Saint-Denis